elfcat - ELF visualizer. Generates HTML files from ELF binaries.

1. How do I install and use it?

   $ cargo install elfcat
   $ elfcat path/to/file
   

2. How does it look like?

   This is how the following small example ELF file looks like:

   http://ruslashev.github.io/elfcat/hello_world.html

   Steps to create it:

   $ cat hello_world.s
   global _start
   
   section .text
   _start:
       mov rax, 1
       mov rdi, 1
       mov rsi, msg
       mov rdx, len
       syscall
   
       mov rax, 60
       xor rdi, rdi
       syscall
   
   section .data
       msg db "Hello, world!", 0xA
       len equ $ - msg
   
   $ cat link.ld
   ENTRY(_start)
   
   SECTIONS {
       . = 0x10080; /* vm.mmap_min_addr + p_offset of first segment */
   
       .text : {
           * (.text)
       }
   
       .data : {
           * (.data)
       }
   }
   
   $ nasm hello_world.s -f elf64
   $ ld hello_world.o -o hello_world -n -T link.ld
   $ elfcat hello_world
   $ xdg-open hello_world.html
   

3. Can I contribute?

   Of course!

4. License?

   Zlib.

5. When I try this on huge files, it slows down my browser!

   Sorry about that. There used to be a feature where segments and sections would be collapsed into a couple characters instead of showing full contents, but it was disabled because it:

   • broke when these would overlap

   • in a way, defeats the purpose: seeing specific bytes is a feature.

6. Upcoming features?

   • Ability to tune the width instead of hardcoded 16 bytes

   • Visualization of virtual memory mappings

   • Dark theme

   • Highlight bytes in ASCII column